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Pro Bono Spotlight By Michael Phillis | February 7, 2021, 8:02 PM EST The ACLU of Ohio, along with attorneys at Thompson Hine LLP and Lambda Legal, recently successfully challenged Ohio s policy forbidding transgender people from correcting their birth certificates to match their gender identity, convincing a judge that the state s policy was discriminatory. Driver s licenses and other documents could reflect an individual s real identity, but around 2016, Ohio started refusing to allow people to correct what plaintiffs called the gender marker on their birth certificate, according to Elizabeth Bonham, an attorney with the ACLU of Ohio. Advocates thought there was no legitimate reasoning behind the policy and sued in 2018, challenging a state approach they said made life for transgender people more difficult. ....
22 Dec 2020 A federal judge ruled last week that Ohio must allow “corrections” on birth certificates issued by the state from one’s biological sex to a chosen gender. Judge Michael Watson, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled on the case based on a lawsuit filed by three women and one man seeking to pick the gender opposite of their biological sex. Watson said not allowing people to pick what sex is on their birth certificate is “nothing more than thinly veiled post-hoc rationales to deflect from the discriminatory impact of the policy.” “This is truly a victory for the LGBT community, in every aspect,” Stacie Ray, one of the four plaintiffs, said. ....
Court says Ohio must allow changes to birth certificates of transgender people In his ruling, Judge Michael Watson called the rule discriminatory and said the state’s arguments were “nothing more than thinly veiled post-hoc rationales to deflect from the discriminatory impact of the policy.” Dec 21, 2020 5:45 AM By: J.D. Davidson (Photo courtesy of odh.ohio.gov) A federal court ruled last week that Ohio must allow changes, or what proponents call corrections, to gender markers on birth certificates, leaving Tennessee as the only state in the nation not to allow changes. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio struck down the policy that prevented transgender people born in Ohio from adjusting the gender marker on their birth certificate. The decision comes in a lawsuit filed two years ago on behalf of three Ohio women and one man. ....